Saturday Matinee – Jonathan Winters, Manu Chao, Gnarlemagne & Billy Cobham/George Duke Band

Jonathan Winters (1925-2013) was the most talented improvisational comedian ever. R.I.P.

Manu Chao, Live Baionarena – Dia Luna Dia Pena. Chao’s got an interesting background that explains a lot of  his leftist politics.

Gnarlemagne‘s “Funky New Orleans” is some fun nasty ska.

“The Red Baron” by The Billy Cobham – George Duke Band, live at Montreax Switzerland in 1976. Very cool funk groove, featuring George Duke, John Scofield, Alphonso Johnson and Billy Cobham.

That’ll do for another edition of The Saturday Matinee. Have a great weekend folks.

The .Gif Friday Post No.275 – Dirtbike, TOGO & Digital Graffito

Backyard Dirtbike
TOGO

Graffiti Cat

[Found here, here and here. I morphed TOGO from this image.]

Only Because I Recognize It

Loused Up In Space Mort Drucker 1966

[Found here via 1966.]

Embryonic Bat Skeleton

Embryonic Bat Skeleton

[Found here.]

Molossus Rufus

Bat Black Mastif Embryo

Destined to become a gargoyle, that’s a Black Mastiff Bat embryo.

[Images found here, via here.]

Great Calamary 1873

Great Calamary 1873

[Image found here; we also have a nice collection of cephalopodia.]

Vintage Vehicles 28-34

Sent via email, h/t Dan S. – photo sources unknown. Click to enlarge images.

Related posts: Vintage Vehicles 1-9 & 10-18 & 19-27.

Saturday Matinee – Fresh Guacamole, Freshlyground, Leon Russell & Friends

[h/t Bunkarina for finding this.]

“Pot Belly,” recorded in 2007 by South African band Freshlyground. Nice song with a cool video [via].

Here’s Freshlyground live with “Fire Is Low” from 2011.

Leon Russell celebrated his 71st birthday 2 April. From the 1971 Concert for Bangladesh, here’s  his take on the Stones‘ “Jumpin’ Jack Flash” and The Coasters‘ “Young Blood.”

The event was the first-ever benefit concert of such a magnitude and featured a supergroup of performers that included George Harrison, Ringo Starr, Bob Dylan, Eric Clapton, Billy Preston, Leon Russell, the band Badfinger,  Ravi Shankar and Ali Akbar Khan [Wiki].

With that, we’re out of here. Have a great weekend folks.

The .Gif Friday Post No.274 – Cat Trap, Speed Corn & Cat Party

CatBoxTrap

SpeedCorn

gatos

[Found here, here and here.]

A TR Milestone – 1,500,000 Big ‘ol Honkin’ Views

15000k

According to the Tacky Raccoons Statistics Department, we received our 1,500,000th blog view sometime this morning, and this is our 2,329th post. Thanks a wad for the all the visits. – Bunk